*JOB TITLE: SAS ADMIN*** Client: Travelers Insurance Company
Location: Hartford, CT. Duration: 1 year *Job Description: *Need an SAS Admin who is more of a Technical Manager SAS Administrator role is required to support the Campaign Measurement project as part of the Direct Portfolio. SAS is a new tool to the organization and this person will be responsible for the initial configuration of the tool and ongoing administrative support during and potentially after the first phase of the project. SAS Administrator experience including configuration and ongoing administrative support** * * *Primary Duties: *** · Overall responsibility for hardware utilized by the Personal Insurance Management Information area. · Responsible for providing technical leadership and project management duties relating to SAS installations, upgrades, performance tuning, space utilization management, security architecture and best practices, maintenance activities and deployment of new infrastructure. · Responsible for diagnosing and resolving SAS performance problems as well as optimizing system performance. · Responsible for cost accounting of SAS hardware and software infrastructure budget and developing processes and measures to reduce the cost of hardware infrastructure. · Communication with customers with regard to system outages. · Provide technical expertise and guidance to SAS application teams with regard to infrastructure and supported development tools. · Provide recommendations of SAS hardware configurations to ensure stability and availability including backup, recovery and disaster recovery issues. · Establish and maintain effective change control and release management processes. *Primary Skills:* - Strong knowledge of Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence industry technologies and tools. - Ability to understand performance tuning / scalability and utilize this information to influence other teams as they develop and test their applications - Strong knowledge of SAS Development tool. - Advanced SAS administration skills (Expert knowledge of SAS Management Console and SAS Metadata Server) - Strong knowledge of Teradata database. · Strong technical documentation skills. · Understanding of SAS security models and process as well as the ability to communicate with other teams to insure applications are audit compliant. · Understanding of source management tools (e.g. MKS) and deployment tools (e.g. Tivoli) · Strong knowledge with operating systems (Windows, UNIX) to be able to coordinate, test and implement required software upgrades. · Strong communication and interpersonal skills * * *Secondary Skills:* * * · Project management skills · Ability to put together plans for roll-outs/upgrades, get buy-in, follow-through and execute to the plans · Ability to communicate in a leadership capacity with respect to upgrades, new functionality, new projects setup etc · Team oriented · Relationship management skills · Ability to work cooperatively with a wide variety of technical and business disciplines · Ability to suggest and act upon process improvements · Staff Management with the goal of workload balancing and task management Please call me if you have any questions. Regards Seshu MetaPro IT Solutions Ph : 913-660-0395 Fax: 913-234-4369 Email: [email protected] Website: www.metaprousa.com
